The appellate court decision clears the way for the region’s troll fishery to continue. It had been threatened by a lawsuit from the Washington-based Wild Fish Conservancy, an environmental group.
A three-judge panel at 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsa lower-court decision that could have temporarily halted troll fishing for salmon in Southeast Alaska.
The ruling shocked Alaskans. Troll fishing in Southeast Alaska happens on a small scale, with individual fishermen and small groups working by hook and line. The state, tribal groups, local fishermen and even Alaska environmental groups — who have praised the troll fishery’s low impact on the environment — all filed documents urging the 9th Circuit to pause the District Court ruling.as if they were inclined to rule in favor of Alaskans.
SalmonState, an Alaska-based conservation group, was among the groups opposing the lawsuit. Tim Bristol, the group’s executive director, said in an emailed statement that the ruling “shows the Wild Fish Conservancy’s attempt to shut down all Chinook fishing by Alaska hook and line trollers was the wrong diagnosis and the wrong prescription for the endangered Southern Resident Orca’s future survival.
Southeast National Marine Fisheries Service Salmonstate Southeast Troll Fishery Wild Fish Conservancy
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